Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, McAdoo rarely makes a speech (his voice is high, squeaky) except on behalf of his pet project: no Panama Canal tolls for intercoastal shipping. In Washington, he is considered a greatly diminished public figure, but still a shrewd political opportunist. Popularly supposed to telephone the White House before casting a vote, he has voted for: Emergency banking legislation, legalizing 3.2 beer (he was a Dry favorite in 1924), 25? limitation on veterans' pension cuts (1933): Gold Restriction Act, Bankhead Cotton Act (1934); Wagner Act (1935); Wagner Housing Act, Neutrality Act, taxation of Federal tax exempt securities, Naval expansion...
Next day at Athens, Ga., accepting an honorary LL.D. from the University of Georgia, Franklin Roosevelt eschewed politics except to say that Georgia "really does not believe either in demagoguery or feudalism dressed up in Democratic clothes." He saved his full thunder-blast for that afternoon at Barnesville, Ga., where he was to throw the switch on a new REA project. Barnesville's population of 3,000 swelled to 30,000 to hear him. On the speakers' platform at his side were Senator George and Candidate Camp. When Franklin Roosevelt began to speak, all present recognized a significant...
...Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Franck, Bach, Sibelius-in that order. This suggested nothing new to the committee, since Wagner, Brahms and Beethoven were most frequently played at Ravinia this summer. Only 4% were bored by any one number, only 8% enjoyed one just moderately. The rest enjoyed everything greatly, except for five people who were bored by a whole program, ten by half of a program. One person asked for a special number next summer-"Roosevelt's Funeral March." The committee decided to look elsewhere than in questionnaires for program ideas...
...elements lists 92-from hydrogen, the lightest element, to uranium, the heaviest. An atom of hydrogen has one positive charge on the nucleus and one planetary electron; uranium has a positive nuclear charge of 92, and 92 attendant electrons. The existence of all these elements has been well established, except for Nos. 85 and 87 (alabamine and virginium),† whose discovery has been claimed by various investigators but not yet certainly confirmed. The existence of elements heavier than uranium is theoretically possible. In fact, such heavy elements of higher numbers than 92 are supposed to exist in vast quantities...
...equipment, this is no great hardship. By last week, although none would admit as much-or much of anything-these companies looked like the major entrants in the forthcoming race for Cuba's oil: Atlantic Refining's subsidiary, with slightly under 740,000 acres in all provinces except Oriente; Cia Petrolera La Estrella de Cuba, subsidiary of Royal Dutch Co., with 44,460 acres in Havana and Matanzas provinces; Union Oil of Cuba, and Sinclair Cuba Oil Co. with increasing acreage spotted throughout the island. If any of these companies strike deep production- long suspected in Cuba...